Department seminars
First term, Sep - Dec 2025
The Departmental Seminar Coordinators are Colette Salemi, Tao Wang and Justin Wiltshire.
Seminars are held in BEC 363 on Fridays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated (in bold).
If you are interested in viewing a paper from one of our seminar speakers, please contact econdept@uvic.ca for a copy.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
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| Sep 12 | Xiaozhou Zhou (University of Quebec at Montreal) | Shorting in the Dark: The Dual Role of Short Sales in Off-Exchange Trading | Ke Xu |
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Sep 17 *Wednesday 12:30-1:20pm |
Henrique Pita Barros (University of Lisbon) | Winning Hearts and Minds through Dialogue: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique's Islamist Insurgency | Colette Salemi |
| Sep 19 | Tae-Hwy Lee (University of California, Riverside) | Predicting Discrete Outcomes Using Many Highly Correlated Predictors (with Anh Tran) | Tao Wang |
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Sep 24 *Wednesday 12:30-1:50pm DSB C128 |
Philip Oreopoulos (University of Toronto, Mississauga) | Computer-Assisted Learning in the Real World: How Khan Academy Influences Student Math Learning | Justin Wiltshire |
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Sep 26 *DSB C116 3:00PM-4:20PM |
Phillip Oreopoulos (University of Toronto, Mississauga) *Lansdowne Lecture |
Personalizing Education: Evidence, Possibilities, and Challenges, for Using Computer Assisted Learning and AI to Accelerate Learning |
Justin Wiltshire |
| Oct 10 | Ali Bakhtawar (Aix-Marseille School of Economics) | TBA | Paul Schure and Pascal Courty |
| Oct 17 | Elizabeth Lyons (University of California San Diego) | The Effects of Digital Surveillance and Managerial Clarity on Performance | Gustavson Business School |
| Oct 24 | Jonathon Proctor (University of British Columbia, Land and Food Systems) | TBA | Felix Pretis |
| Oct 31 | Austin Nichols | Lessons from US Disability Research | Martin Farnham |
| Nov 07 | Kourtney Koebel (University of Toronto) | TBA |
Peter Kenedy / Janet Burlacu |
| Nov 14 | Bryan Leonard (University of Wyoming) | TBA | |
| Nov 21 | Reka Juhasz (University of British Columbia) | TBA | |
| Nov 28 | Godefroy Emmanuel Guindon (McMaster University) | TBA | |
| Dec 05 | Kevin Milligan (University of British Clumbia) | TBA |
Second term, Jan - Apr 2026
The Departmental Seminar Coordinators are Colette Salemi, Tao Wang and Justin Wiltshire.
Seminars are held in BEC 363 on Fridays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated (in bold).
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16 | Russell Toth (University of Sydney) | Colette Salemi | |
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Jan 23 |
Michael Devereux (UBC) | Ke Xu | |
| Jan 30 | Arthur Sweetman (McMaster University) | Martin Farnham | |
| Feb 06 | Elizabeth Dhuey (University of Toronto) | Peter Kennedy / Janet Burlacu | |
| Feb 13 | Liam Kelly (UNBC) | David Scoones | |
| Feb 20 | Reading Break | Reading Break | Reading Break |
| Feb 27 | Dinghai Xu (Waterloo University) | Ke Xu | |
| Mar 06 | Christopher Carpenter (Vanderbilt, College of Arts and Science) | Donn Feir | |
| Mar 13 | Jeffrey Bloem (IFPRI) | Colette Salemi | |
| Mar 20 | Christopher Blattman (University of Chicago) | Colette Salemi | |
| Mar 27 | Abubakr Ayesh | Colette Salemi | |
| Apr 10 |
Marianne Page *Reid Elliot Lecture |
Justin Wiltshire |
First term, Sep - Dec 2024
The Departmental Seminar Coordinators are Colette Salemi, Tao Wang and Justin Wiltshire.
Seminars are held in BEC 363 on Fridays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated (in bold).
If you are interested in viewing a paper from one of our seminar speakers, please contact econdept@uvic.ca for a copy.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20 | Amy Sun (Queens) | Bank Loan Portfolio and Monetary Policy | Ke Xu |
| Sep 27 | Augustin Tapsoba (Toulouse School of Economics) | Polygyny and the Economic Determinants of Family Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa | Donn Feir |
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Oct 4 *Lansdowne BEC 363 |
Marianne Bitler (UC Davis) | Long-Run Effects of Food Assistance: Evidence from the Food Stamp Program and Administrative Data | Justin Wiltshire |
| Oct 11 | Ian Luby (The Nature Conservancy) | From Global Agreements to Local Action: The Role of Economics in Protecting the Planet | Colette Salemi |
| Oct 18 | Jing Tao (University of Washington) | Post-Clustering Robust Inference | Tao Wang |
| Oct 25 | Witson Pena Tello (University of Barcelona) | Policy Interactions and CO2 Emissions in the Electricity Generation Sector: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis | Katya Rhodes / Colette Salemi |
| Nov 1 | Carl McPherson | How Magnetic Can Welfare Be? | Justin Wiltshire |
| Nov 8 | Nicholas Carollo (Federal Reserve Board) | The Impact of Occupational Licensing on Earnings and Employment: Evidence from State Policy Changes | Jason Hicks |
| Nov 15 | Mahdi Shariati Feizabadi | Sport Geoeconometric | |
| Nov 22 | Siwei Wang (Hunan University, China) | Quantile Prediction with Factor-augmented Regression: Structural Instability and Model Uncertainty | Tao Wang |
Second term, Jan - Apr 2025
The Departmental Seminar Coordinators are Colette Salemi, Tao Wang and Justin Wiltshire.
Seminars are held in BEC 363 on Fridays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated (in bold).